Chasing gold : the incredible story of how the Nazis stole Europe's bullion /
For the entire history of human civilization, gold has enraptured people around the globe. The Nazis were no less enthralled by it and felt gold was the solution to funding Hitler's war machine. Gold was also on the mind of FDR across the Atlantic, as he worked with Europe's other leaders...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
2014.
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books cloth edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- The glitter of gold
- Spanish prelude
- Adolf Hitler's argonaut
- Franklin D. Roosevelt's argonaut
- Hermann Göring grabs control
- The club for central bankers
- Austria becomes the first easy piece
- An inside job against Czechoslovakia
- Mutiny at the Reichsbank
- Poland's long odyssey
- Northern lights go out
- The world's Fort Knox
- Denmark and Norway fall quickly
- Italy crushes Albania
- Holland falls in four days
- Belgium and Luxembourg trust France
- The fall of France
- The Vatican's secret gold
- Escape to Casablanca
- Britain on the brink
- Destination Dakar
- Balkan distractions
- The Soviet Union stares into an abyss
- Melmer gold
- Dragging everything out Italian style
- Partners in gold
- The Allies finally crack down
- Rich discovery in a salt mine
- The Götterdämmerung of gold
- The end of a sordid tale.